QUESTION: I found an email in my spam folder with the name of someone I regularly exchange emails with, but when I moused over the name the sender was (name removed by Husted). If this had landed in my inbox, I would have opened it without question.

I have seen this with company names, but this is the first time this has happened with a name from my contact list. If someone can change who a phone call is from, I guess they can change who an email is from. From now on, I will definitely mouse over the sender to double check who it's from. What worries me is how someone got that name.

Jesse Stiggins

ANSWER: Faking an email name and address is easy. If you use Google, you'll find various ways, including software that will do the job for you.